New! Time and Leave Guidance for the Columbus Day Holiday
Columbus Day, Monday October 9th, is a federal holiday for pay and leave purposes for all federal employees.
Full-time and part-time employees scheduled to work on Monday are excused from duty and entitled to holiday pay.
Employees on a standard or flexible schedule are provided with 8 hours of holiday pay and employees on a compressed schedule are provided holiday pay for the number of hours they would have been scheduled to work (i.e., 8, 9, 10 or 12 hours).
Full-time employees not scheduled to work on Monday, the calendar holiday, are eligible for a substitute “in-lieu-of holiday.” For this holiday, the in-lieu-of holiday is the scheduled workday immediately preceding the Columbus Day calendar holiday. For most full-time employees in this situation, the in-lieu-of holiday will therefore be observed on Friday, October 6, 2023.
New! Don't Wait! Update Your PIV Card Today
If you recently received an email from HSPD12Admin@usaccess.gsa.gov about your new upgraded Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card, take action today in order to avoid interrupted IT or physical access.
Anyone that needs to take action should have — or will — receive an email with specific directions on what to do. Please take action right away.
Background
GSA has switched over to a new type of PIV card for both employees and contractors. The purpose of this new PIV card is to meet the revised guidelines of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the GSA HSPD-12 HELP DESK email at hspd12.security@gsa.gov or call 202-501-4459, Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Reminder! Upcoming Agency-wide Town Hall
Join agency leadership for a town hall on Wednesday, October 11th, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern. The upcoming town hall will focus on two 2023 themes: making buying from and selling to the government easier and delivering the best in digital services.
This event will be hosted through Zoom.
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ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
October 5th: Deputy Administrator Katy Kale announces that the 2023 Internal Partnership Satisfaction Survey results are available on D2D
October 3rd: Administrator Carnahan announces GSA's CX Award winners on Customer Experience Day
October 2nd: CIO Dave Shive kicks off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a reminder that all employees play a role in keeping the agency safe from cyber attacks
Check out the Messages from Leadership page on InSite, where you can find past messages from GSA leaders.
New! Save the Date: OCFO Town Hall Scheduled for November 1st
Join OCFO leaders on Wednesday, November 1st, at 2 p.m. Eastern, for a quarterly town hall.
During the event, we'll recognize the recent CFO Award winners, provide updates from leadership, and more! The event will be recorded for those who can't attend.
Have questions? You can submit them in advance and during the town hall through this Google Form or by emailing them to ocfo@gsa.gov.
You can find the event on your calendar or join via Zoom at 2 p.m. Eastern.
Closed captioning and American Sign Language interpretation will be available during the town hall.
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Sign Up to Have Lunch With OCFO's Chief of Staff!
There's still time to sign up to join Christian Hazen for lunch on Thursday, October 26th at noon. Sign up here.
Lunches are limited to 20 people, so sign up today!
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Every week we will feature OCFO colleagues who have been recognized by their peers for their great work and character. This is a quick, easy, and fun way to acknowledge and thank one another.
To recognize one (or more) of your peers in the next Week in Review, use the OCFO Shout Outs Google Form.
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Shout out to Jenny Trammell (BG2EAB)!
Shout out to Jenny for all her hard work on year end entries for new FLEET processes. Thank you so much for all your help with this.
Submitted by: Angela Cizek (BGF)
Shout out to Jewell Anderson (BIA)!
Big SHOUT OUT to Jewell Anderson for not only successfully running user acceptance testing of AWS WorkSpaces for OCFO, but also compiling a compelling set of feedback and recommendations to the FCS team on how to improve their processes and guidance. Jewell's diligence will make sure that our near term "pain" will turn into long term gain for future users of our cloud-based data and analytics environment. Thank you, Jewell, for being a leader who always has her eye on how to improve the experience of our end user!
Submitted by: Ashleigh Sanders (BI)
Shout out to the Operations Section (BG2ECC)!
GP&IT wants to say "THANK YOU" to Operations for their support during the year, especially at fiscal year end. We appreciate you all being available to help us out by clearing exceptions, helping out with vendor codes so we could timely process VITAP transactions, and helping us make payments timely to vendors. We appreciate your teamwork!
Submitted by: General Programs & IT Section (BG2ECD)
Shout out to Jane Binagi, Lisa Carter, and Stephanie Steffensmeier (all BG2ECD)!
This is a shout out to Jane, Lisa, and Stephanie for monitoring, reconciling, and taking the necessary actions in Pegasys to stay on top of TOPS transactions. Because of your diligence and teamwork throughout 2023, clearing fiscal year end UDOs went smoothly. Thank you! I appreciate your hard work!
Submitted by: Laurie McConaughey (BG2ECD)
Shout out to Sherri Pendleton and Gail Pratt (both BG2ECD)!
This is a shout out to Gail and Sherri for ensuring IPAC and banking cash was booked properly and timely this fiscal year end. Thank you for clearing cash items and quickly getting the answers needed on out-of-the-ordinary cash items so we had as few as possible to book over the weekend.
Submitted by: Laurie McConaughey (BG2ECD)
Shout out to the BR Operations Budget Analyst Community!
This fiscal year end stood out as the most improved operation for timeliness and accuracy for recurring service contract documents in the past ten years. The CPG team recognizes this is strongly related to the outstanding efforts by all BR Operations budget analysts nationally. Special recognition is being given to Tonya Polk, David Walko, Wayne Edwards, Ana Jones, Christina Hale, Jay Wong, and Djuana Pittman for their extra, above-and-beyond customer service during the final weeks of fiscal year 2023. Thank you to all for making our most challenging period such a huge success!
Submitted by: Natalie Cotter (BR2C)
Shout out to the BIC team!
Shout out to my BIC teammates for another successful year under the leadership of Vivi Tran-Chu. Dan Icitovic, Grace Jeon, Hilary Busbee, Sophie Rybacki, Veronica Butler and Will Spelker assisted our GSA customers with nearly 1,700 requests in the areas of business intelligence, financial coding, research, and website maintenance. Their efforts helped to reduce the hours customers spent by 6,000 hours or approximately $500,000 in savings.
The BIC team also lead over 20 strategic efforts that helped move GSA financial data, systems, and reporting to new levels. Some of the key projects included:
- Working with partner agencies to clean up vendor accounts.
- Ingesting and cataloging multiple financial datasets into the FAS Cloud Services environment as part of OCFO data modernization efforts.
- Establishing a Data Stewards Working Group, data catalog user manual, and data quality/data sharing roadmaps.
- Successful implementation of Fleet.gov system interfaces, Contract Acquisition Life-Cycle Management (CALM) system interfaces, and Budget and Planning Application (BAPA) reporting.
- Publication of the OCFO Financial Taxonomy on InSite.
- Successful implementation of G-Invoicing Phase one system and reporting requirements.
Thanks to all of you for your efforts in support of BIC customers and I cannot wait to see what you achieve in FY 2024!
Submitted by: Mike Wano (BIC)
Welcome to the OCFO Analytics Corner! Each week, the Analytics Community of Practice (A-CoP) team will be sharing events, training, resources, and more. If you would like to learn more about the OCFO Analytics Community of Practice, you can sign up for updates here.
Join Brian Mooers to Learn Process Improvement Techniques!
Do you want to learn two simple techniques to use for process improvement? Join GSA’s Brian Mooers on October 24th for an introduction to the RACI and SIPOC techniques, which can help you understand your process and help illuminate roles and responsibilities at the task level. Register today!
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Visit the Mandatory Training page on GSA's InSite for mandatory training deadlines and watch the GSA News & Info section for training reminders.
Looking for enterprise-wide training? You'll find a selection of the upcoming offerings below or check out the Online University Events Calendar for a full slate of training opportunities.
Upcoming Enterprise-wide Training
Check out the Online University Events Calendar for more training opportunities.
*These courses fill up fast, so register today! If no more seats are available, join the waitlist or register for a later session.
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